The Mega-Zine Museum
August 17, 1993
A SHORT STORY
Once upon a time in the deep and misty past of the mid-1950s, there was a great, new and crazy idea. All adults hated and feared it - but the teenagers loved it. It was blamed for every sin society could think of.
What could "it" be? Only rock n' roll of course. But times have changed and what do we have now? Music isn't daring or rebellious any more. The charts are full of stars our parents like and soulless dance music.
The older generation invented drugs, sex and rock n' roll and now we're just doing a poor copy. Pop music doesn't scare anyone any more and is thought of as part of the fabric of our society.
Now parents blame computer games for all evil and wish their children would listen to rock music "cos they understand it".
Erm, where were we? Ah, yes, of course.
Rock and pop, as we know it, is dying and it will need something very new to get it back to the excitement of almost 40 years ago.
by Desperate Flobberama, Blandness City
Anyone out there still awake? No, really, we couldn't agree with you more, Flobbsy. Good on you. The 'zine needs more social analysis like this!
GOR - THE 'ZINE'S GOING SOCIOLOGICAL!!!
TOP TEN B-SIDES
| 1 | To The Birds | - | Suede |
| 2 | Banana Co. | - | Radiohead |
| 3 | Broadmoor Hotel | - | Kingmaker |
| 4 | Totally Random Man | - | Therapy? |
| 5 | The Big Time | - | Suede |
| 6 | Hibernation | - | Manic Street Preachers |
| 7 | High Diving Horses | - | The Auteurs |
| 8 | Never Ending Staircase | - | The Frank and Walters |
| 9 | Valuable Fool | - | Dodgy |
| 10 | Spacehopper | - | Thousand Yard Stare |
Jonathan Baines, The Only Truly Dedicated Take That Fan Honest, Warks.
AAH, A SIMPLE TOP TEN - CAN'T BEAT IT!
ALBUM REVIEW - BANG by WORLD PARTY
Through listening to the first few tracks of this album, most people would start to define it as Karl Wallinger's philosophy of the downfalls of the late 20th century.
However, this would belie the humour, subtlety and general cleverness of the later songs. So in mixing up Karl Wallinger's social awareness with mellow and melodic song structures, he creates a good background to how life was lived in 1993.
The production is superb, his genius ever-present and what an oversight has been made by the judges of the Mercury Music Awards in leaving out this album.
His one fault - releasing Give It All Away as a single before Hollywood or What Is Love All About? which surely would have fared better.
And God Said is his divine message for us all and really says it all.
Andy Wood, Essex
ALL DIVINE MESSAGES GRATEFULLY RECEIVED
LIVE REVIEW - CNN/RHINO, MIDDLESBOROUGH ARENA
Rhino started the night off with their turbocharged sound sounding like a high-speed collision between the Utah Saints and Sheep on Drugs. Keep your eyes and ears open for Rhino's explosive mix of techno and rock.
Although CNN have only just released their first single, they've been around for a while with a white label 12" and numerous radio sessions and broadcasts.
They played all the tracks from the White Label 12" including Young, Stupid and White and their best tracks Shutdown and Broadway.
Forget about Suede being an exciting British band when we have Therapy?, Swervedriver and newcomers like CNN, Skyscraper, Mint 400 and Rhino.
Peter Lipthorpe, Cleveland
IT'S SPIFFINGLY 'ZINE-TASTIC, EH WHAT?
MORE TO COME TOMORROW, FOLKS!
